Spring 2014 Newsletter Now
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Journal of the LHC

The first issue of the LHC’s new serial publication, the Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference was issued in October and has been mailed to members. This new publication will be produced annually, and will include articles on North American Lutheran history, as well as an annual bibliography of other publications in this field.
The editor of the Journal is Mark Granquist, Associate Professor of Church History, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. He can be reached at mgranquist001@luthersem.edu. Please contact him if you have manuscripts or ideas for submissions.

The first issue continued papers from the 2011 conference. Those were:

“From Piety to Policy: The Danish Lutheran Mission School for Indians in Oaks, Oklahoma,” by Maria Erling

"Arthur Simon: From Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Bread for the World,” by Kathryn M. Galchutt

“Trexler’s Travels: Samuel Geiss Trexler and the Emergence of International Lutheranism,” by Michael G. L. Church

“Lutherans, Watergate, and Morality: Engaging the Political Realm,” by David E. Settje

“Laughing with the Lenape: Swedes and Native Americans in Colonial Delaware,” by Kim-Eric Williams

“Images of the Inupiaq: The Photography and Mission Work of Helen C. Frost,” by Julieanna Frost

“Hannah and Marie Larsen at the Schreuder Mission in Zululand,” by Rachel Vagts

2009 and 2010 Indexes of Writings in the Field of American Lutheranism as Published in the November 2010 LHC Newslette

Additional volumes can be purchased through Lutheran University Press at www.lutheranupress.org.

Essays and Reports, Volume 22

Lutheran Identity and Regional
Distinctiveness

Volume 22 in the LHC
Essays and Reports series is now
available. The volume contains the papers presented at the 23rd
Biennial Meeting of the LHC, held at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary,
Columbia, S.C., on October 12-14, 2006.

The volume is available
from Concordia Historical Institute, 804 Seminary Place, Saint Louis,
MO
63105-3014. The cost is $20.00, plus $3.00
for postage and handling. Many earlier volumes, as well as other LHC
publications, are also available.

Become a Member of the
LHC

Lutheran archivists,
librarians, historians and other
interested individuals and institutions are invited to become members
of the Lutheran Historical Conference, an interdisciplinary
organization founded in 1962. Click here for
membership information.

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General Information

The LHC holds biennial
meetings at which papers on the history
of Lutheranism are presented and discussed. These papers are published
in a series called Essays
and Reports. Monographs on
American Lutheran history are also published by the conference.

Lutheran History
Resources Online

Links to ebooks and
other
Lutheran history publications
available on the Internet.